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1,195,063 | From a purely mathematical point of view, however, the two sets of functions are not necessarily the same for formula_40 (for formula_41 they are equal by definition). Indeed, proceeding systematically in the hierarchy, one finds that similarly to formula_37, each formula_43 also contains arbitrary functions of formula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24388881 | 1,194,423 |
1,605,313 | After the Institut national d'études démographiques, the MPIDR is the largest demographic research body in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Conducting basic research into demographic processes, it analyzes the underlying causes of demographic change, describes contemporary demographic trends, produces foreca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6728390 | 1,604,409 |
536,253 | The 14th century saw the development of new mathematical concepts to investigate a wide range of problems. The two widely used arithmetic symbols are addition and subtraction, + and −. The plus sign was used by 1360 by Nicole Oresme in his work "Algorismus proportionum". It is thought an abbreviation for "et", meaning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,974 |
1,787,672 | Since India's independence, the IAF has been actively involved in defending territorial boundaries. In 1948, the IAF acquired its first jet fighter type, the de Havilland Vampire, and the Aircraft Testing Unit (ATU) was raised under the command of Wg Cdr H Moolgavkar to accept and test these aircraft. By the early 1950... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31067011 | 1,786,667 |
309,956 | The first use of electrification on an American main line was on a four-mile stretch of the Baltimore Belt Line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in 1895 connecting the main portion of the B&O to the new line to New York through a series of tunnels around the edges of Baltimore's downtown. Parallel tracks on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390883 | 309,789 |
295,420 | A key concept in the Busicom design was that the program control and ALU were not aimed specifically at the calculator market, it was the program in ROM that turned it into a calculator. The original idea was that the company could use the same chips with different amounts of shift register RAM and program ROM to produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102393 | 295,260 |
167,898 | Researcher Henrique Lins de Barros, from the Brazilian Center for Physics Research, rejects the thesis that the Brazilian inventor was homosexual, arguing that he was just a man concerned with his appearance. According to Barros, "The French refinement sounded like homosexual affectation to American journalists, who de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,808 |
1,010,758 | On 22 September 1958, the first prototype was joined by the similarly-configured second prototype. It did feature some differences from the earlier aircraft; chiefly, it was powered by a newer model of the Viper engine, the Viper 11, which had been rated to produce 11.1 kN thrust (1,134 kgf, 2,500 lbf). The Viper 11 wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184400 | 1,010,237 |
580,784 | In the 1950s, Barbara McClintock first observed DNA transposition and illustrated the functions of the centromere and telomere at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium. McClintock's work set the stage for the discovery of repeated sequences because transposition, centromere structure, and telomere structure are all possible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577715 | 580,487 |
1,676,824 | The men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held on 6 and 10 August 2016 at the HSBC Arena. Kōhei Uchimura won gold, becoming the first male gymnast in 44 years (and third overall) to do this in two successive Olympic Games. Uchimura also became the second man to earn three all-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47285534 | 1,675,882 |
1,705,737 | Mahatma Education Society and PCE have jointly developed the Urban Expansion Observatory (UXO) in collaboration with New York University, Marron Institute of Urban Management. The observatory seeks to study cities around the world using GIS and remote sensing techniques. The UXO combines analysis of remote sensing alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31291516 | 1,704,779 |
241,621 | Having been rebuffed by literary agents when trying to get prior books published, Weir decided to put the book online in serial format one chapter at a time for free at his website. At the request of fans, he made an Amazon Kindle version available at 99 cents (the minimum allowable price he could set). The Kindle edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41961028 | 241,495 |
205,096 | Kuhn's approach to the history and philosophy of science focuses on conceptual issues like the practice of normal science, influence of historical events, emergence of scientific discoveries, nature of scientific revolutions and progress through scientific revolutions. What sorts of intellectual options and strategies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315006 | 204,990 |
575,309 | The Research Institute for Advanced Study (RIAS) was conceived by George S. Trimble, the vice president for aviation and advanced propulsion systems, Glenn L. Martin Company, and was placed under the direct supervision of Welcome Bender. The first person Bender hired was Louis Witten, an authority on gravitation physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19256144 | 575,015 |
809,380 | The IMTS was financially supported by the Government and industrialists. Its management was democratic. But a key feature of the new institution was its educational system called the "Russian method", which unifies a broad and intensive theoretical preparation with a deep practical education closely connected with indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714503 | 808,950 |
769,032 | In 1960, the CSIR established a Wind Power Division as part of the new National Aeronautical Laboratory (NAL) in Bangalore, which was founded that year. From the 1960s into the 1980s, the NAL and other groups continued to carry out wind velocity surveys and develop improved estimates of India's wind energy capacity. La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10922076 | 768,620 |
1,614,452 | There are also functional equations for the local zeta-functions, arising at a fundamental level for the (analogue of) Poincaré duality in étale cohomology. The Euler products of the Hasse–Weil zeta-function for an algebraic variety "V" over a number field "K", formed by reducing "modulo" prime ideals to get local zeta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595708 | 1,613,546 |
1,936,936 | Two types of combat scenarios were considered. In one, a single AH-1G Cobra attack helicopter simulating a TOW-equipped AH-1Q was paired with two OH-58 helicopters providing forward observation. This sort of "hunter/killer" team had been used to great effect in Vietnam. It was not clear this was suitable in an armor-he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63696283 | 1,935,828 |
2,090,958 | The men's 110 metres hurdles event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1920 Summer Olympics. The competition was held on Tuesday, August 17, 1920, and on Wednesday, August 18, 1920. 24 runners from 15 nations competed. No nation had more than 4 runners, suggesting the limit had been reduced from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12795716 | 2,089,755 |
18,440 | That year, Russian leaders like Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev indicated their country's opposition to NATO enlargement. While Russian President Boris Yeltsin did sign an agreement with NATO in May 1997 that included text referring to new membership, he clearly described NATO expansion as "unacceptable" and a threat t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17046267 | 18,434 |
366,159 | Paracelsus' mother probably died in 1502, after which Paracelsus's father moved to Villach, Carinthia, where he worked as a physician, attending to the medical needs of the pilgrims and inhabitants of the cloister. Paracelsus was educated by his father in botany, medicine, mineralogy, mining, and natural philosophy. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152487 | 365,967 |
525,866 | In some configurations, bistatic radars may be designed to operate in a fence-like configuration, detecting targets which pass between the transmitter and receiver, with the bistatic angle near 180 degrees. This is a special case of bistatic radar, known as a forward scatter radar, after the mechanism by which the tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7254186 | 525,593 |
130,053 | At about 55 hours and 40 minutes into the flight, and 13 hours before entering lunar orbit, the crew of Apollo8 became the first humans to enter the gravitational sphere of influence of another celestial body. In other words, the effect of the Moon's gravitational force on Apollo8 became stronger than that of the Earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663 | 130,001 |
739,681 | Some bacteria that cause UTIs can reduce urinary nitrates to nitrites. The presence of nitrites, which causes a pink color on the reagent strip pad, therefore acts as an indicator of urinary tract infection. The nitrite test is quite specific, meaning that someone is likely to have a UTI if it is positive, but it is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568003 | 739,289 |
2,060,421 | Upon completing his post-doctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Angenent accepted an assistant professor position at Washington University in St. Louis. After his wife, microbial ecologist Ruth E. Ley, joined him in the city they conducted a dual career job search before settling on Cornell Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67231860 | 2,059,234 |
396,620 | The debate over whether concussion is a functional or structural phenomenon is ongoing. Structural damage has been found in the mildly traumatically injured brains of animals, but it is not clear whether these findings would apply to humans. Such changes in brain structure could be responsible for certain symptoms such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,424 |
1,814,064 | CGST started on 28 September 1975. In the mid 1960s, a group of students at Westminster Theological Seminary developed the idea of establishing "an indigenous, inter-denominational, evangelical and graduate level theological institution for the purpose of training university graduates to serve the churches in China and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48532431 | 1,813,030 |
40,396 | At current greenhouse gas emission rates, temperatures could increase by 2 °C (3.6 °F), which the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says is the upper limit to avoid "dangerous" levels, by 2050. The vast majority of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions come from combustion of fossil fuel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21350772 | 40,381 |
947,725 | The combination of required reliability level and required confidence level greatly affects the development cost and the risk to both the customer and producer. Care is needed to select the best combination of requirements—e.g. cost-effectiveness. Reliability testing may be performed at various levels, such as componen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,222 |
1,139,357 | Because push-pull technology was developed mainly outside of Sub-saharan Africa—where international agencies today aim to grow its impact the most—a lack of trust was initially faced. This distrust was fueled by local suspicions that external agents had hidden self-interested agendas. In relationships where resources t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5444788 | 1,138,764 |
1,076,425 | In 1967, then-principal Claude Burkert (1958–1969) oversaw the relocation of his school to its current location at 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, a fifty-three-acre tract of land bordering Falls Road and Roland Park. Also occupying this site is the Western High School, an all-girls school founded in 1844. Notable building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=913572 | 1,075,870 |
1,737,497 | From 1918 to 1956, Bartholomew taught civic design at the University of Illinois and made substantial contributions to the scholarly and practice literature in city planning. In 1932, he completed his landmark study "Urban Land Uses", published by Harvard University Press in the City Planning series edited by Theodora ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8077455 | 1,736,520 |
834,988 | The 1980s saw another decade of growth. Enrollment rose from 2,284 to 2,660. The Brown Activities Center (named for George G. Brown), Wyatt Center for the Arts (named for Wilson W. Wyatt), Norton Fine Arts Complex (named for Jane Morton Norton), Alumni Hall (Humanities Building), and Maurice D.S. Johnson quadrangle (na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394938 | 834,539 |
1,202,858 | David Hunter Hubel (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was a Canadian American neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (shared with Roger W. Sperry), for their discoveries c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=832632 | 1,202,215 |
910,534 | Agent-based computational economics (ACE) as a named field is relatively recent, dating from about the 1990s as to published work. It studies economic processes, including whole economies, as dynamic systems of interacting agents over time. As such, it falls in the paradigm of complex adaptive systems. In corresponding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18967255 | 910,055 |
232,574 | The level of blending above 10% (V/V) is chosen both from a technical (safety) perspective and to distinguish the product in Europe from regular unleaded petrol for reasons of taxes and customer clarity. Small-scale tests have shown many vehicles with modern engine types can run smoothly on this hydrous ethanol blend. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155310 | 232,455 |
266,194 | Charig and Milner presented a possible scenario explaining the taphonomy (changes during decay and fossilisation) of the "B. walkeri" holotype specimen. The fine-grained sediments around the skeleton, and the fact that the bones were found close together (skull and forelimb elements at one end of the excavation area an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,050 |
654,326 | The Roland TR-808 drum machine was introduced in 1980, and consisted on an analog machine with step programming method. The 808 was heavily used by Afrika Bambaataa, who released "Planet Rock" in 1982, in addition to the electro hip hip groundbreaking classic "Nunk" by Warp 9, produced by Lotti Golden and Richard Scher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555227 | 653,982 |
2,225,883 | During VERDI, airborne observations were conducted inside and above low-level Arctic clouds. Their properties were characterized in detail. The observation methods included remote sensing (both active and passive) covering a large cloud extent, as well as in-situ probing of cloud droplets and ice crystals. The measurem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36146362 | 2,224,619 |
127,886 | During an acute heart event, named acute coronary syndrome, it is of vital importance to restore blood flow to the myocardium as fast as possible. Typically, patients arrive at hospital with chest pain. Initially they are treated with medical drugs, particularly the strongest drugs that prevent clots within vessels (du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195248 | 127,834 |
183,952 | As the infall of its material onto the disk continues, the envelope eventually becomes thin and transparent and the young stellar object (YSO) becomes observable, initially in far-infrared light and later in the visible. Around this time the protostar begins to fuse deuterium. If the protostar is sufficiently massive (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212374 | 183,855 |
32,037 | Building on the work of Felix Hausdorff, in 1924 Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski proved that given a solid ball in 3‑dimensional space, there exists a decomposition of the ball into a finite number of disjoint subsets that can be reassembled together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,026 |
393,695 | At the start of the first iteration, under both interpretations, the probability of surviving the experiment is 50%, as given by the squared norm of the wave function. At the start of the second iteration, assuming a single-world interpretation of quantum mechanics (like the widely-held Copenhagen interpretation) is tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48685 | 393,500 |
458,194 | Freshwater bivalves, as their name implies, are composed of two halves, or a left and right valve, connected via a soft ligament along a hinge. These two valves are non-living, composed of both organic and inorganic substances that make up three major valve layers. The first, outermost layer is the thin epidermis (peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12717134 | 457,971 |
1,624,868 | During the early years, the company took on any engineering work that came their way, but were generally kept in business developing new code-breaking machines for the Navy. Most of the machines were custom-built to crack a specific code, and increasingly used magnetic drum memory to process and analyze the coded texts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77901 | 1,623,952 |
1,979,414 | The family, circumscribed nearly two centuries ago, now includes 56 genera and about one thousand species, and is the third-largest family of lichen-forming fungi. Most diversity occurs in temperate climates of the Northern Hemisphere. Rocks and soil are the most common substrates for the Verrucariaceae, with growth on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21348884 | 1,978,276 |
2,024,192 | Anthropogenic forces contribute to coral reef degradation, reducing their resiliency. Some anthropogenic forces that degrade corals include pollution, sedimentation from coastal development, and ocean acidification due to increased fossil fuel emissions. The combustion of fossil fuels results in the emission of green h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33930275 | 2,023,028 |
1,359,593 | Eq. () has to be discretized as it cannot be solved analytically. The theory of inverse ill-posed problems demonstrates that potential noisy components in the lidar data will cause the solution to blow up, regardless of the error level magnitude. Regularization methods are used to counteract the inherent instability of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736055 | 1,358,842 |
2,092,022 | When the CIN was founded, the High School Lab in Neuroscience was also established. The High School Lab is a place for learning outside school, but aimed at high school students to interest them in work as a researcher and neuroscientific research questions. Students addressed are most often in their final years of hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54798703 | 2,090,817 |
1,850,126 | The early history of the Nomads is not well recorded, which changed after their contact with cultures possessing written history. Nomadic people of the vast steppes of Asia were a major force in history. Their power was not in the empires they built, but rather the turmoil they created among ancient civilizations such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10373718 | 1,849,068 |
1,228,828 | Flying conditions in Vietnam proved to be a great threat to the safety of medical aircraft and crew in 1967 than combat damage resulting from enemy action. Though some accidents were caused by the failure pilots to react properly to a critical condition, the most prevalent causes of serious accidents were weather and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8709111 | 1,228,166 |
667,215 | The USAF recommended that the MOL use the Gemini B spacecraft with the Titan III booster. A program of six flights (one uncrewed and five crewed) was proposed, the first flight taking place in 1966. The program was costed at US$1.653 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). The Science Advisor to the President, Donald Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,867 |
767,283 | The fire cycle for ponderosa pine is 5 to 10 years, in which a natural ignition sparks a low-intensity fire. Low, once-a-decade fires are known to have helped specimens live for half a millennium or more. The tree has thick bark and its buds are protected by needles, allowing even some younger individuals to survive we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532941 | 766,872 |
1,680,515 | On April 9, 2015, the Öberg Astrochemistry Group published a paper stating they detected the first complex carbon molecule in a protoplanetary disk, this molecule being methyl cyanide. Methyl cyanide (CHCN) is thought to be important for the origins of life because it contains carbon-nitrogen bonds, which make up amino... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48707736 | 1,679,572 |
282,366 | Around this time, mid 1944, the United Kingdom's Gloster Meteor was being used for defence of the UK against the V-1 flying bomb – itself a pulsejet-powered aircraft and direct ancestor of the cruise missile– and then ground-attack operations over Europe in the last months of the war. In 1944 Germany introduced the Ara... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164656 | 282,213 |
983,200 | An ordinary camera could be used to take the three pictures, by reloading it and changing filters between exposures, but pioneering color photographers usually built or bought special cameras that made the procedure less awkward and time-consuming. One of the two main types used beam splitters to produce three separate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444712 | 982,686 |
1,912,240 | Dr. Joe Ben Welch played a key role in the early growth and development of the college. He served as director, dean, provost, and president during his nineteen-year tenure at the institution. The initial class offerings focused on academic courses that would transfer and count toward a baccalaureate degree. Welch, howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3219826 | 1,911,141 |
1,180,065 | Astronauts Wolf and Marshburn began EVA 2 at 15:27 UTC out of the Quest airlock. The EVA was to transfer the spare components brought by the shuttle from the ICC-VLD to External Stowage Platform-3. The spares were handled by Wolf riding the station's robotic arm to the P3 truss stowage platform where he and Marshburn a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4292653 | 1,179,441 |
14,482 | The most frequently used measures of the Big Five comprise either items that are self-descriptive sentences or, in the case of lexical measures, items that are single adjectives. Due to the length of sentence-based and some lexical measures, short forms have been developed and validated for use in applied research sett... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284664 | 14,477 |
1,789,790 | LD is very similar to Circular Dichroism (CD), but with two important differences. (i) CD spectroscopy uses circularly polarized light whereas LD uses linearly polarized light. (ii) In CD experiments molecules are usually free in solution so they are randomly oriented. The observed spectrum is then a function only of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21505767 | 1,788,784 |
409,983 | One of the most significant events in the history of the academy was the admission of women. On 7 October 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed legislation permitting women to enter the United States service academies. On 26 June 1976, 157 women entered the Air Force Academy with the Class of 1980. Because there were n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77587 | 409,781 |
64,155 | One of the drawbacks of using a classic television is that the computer display resolution is higher than the television could decode. Chroma resolution for NTSC/PAL televisions are bandwidth-limited to a maximum 1.5MHz, or approximately 160 pixels wide, which led to blurring of the color for 320- or 640-wide signals, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=601399 | 64,130 |
908,469 | On 20 July 2012, Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced successful simulation of the complete life cycle of a "Mycoplasma genitalium" cell, in the journal "Cell". The entire organism is modeled in terms of its molecular components, integrating all cellular processes into a single model. Using o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20219 | 907,991 |
1,366,774 | In 2002, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked a Biological Response Modifiers Advisory Committee Meeting to advise on the technique of cytoplasmic transfer to treat infertility. This committee felt that there were risks at the time of inadvertent transfer of chromosomes and enhanced survival of abnormal embr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25416659 | 1,366,018 |
1,168,530 | Dartmouth University as the Legislature saw it would offer a broad professional program, including separate schools of law and medicine. The existing Medical School continued to operate, but the rest of the University remained small: professors taught classes to a small number of undergraduates in Dartmouth Hall. The U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189648 | 1,167,912 |
422,018 | Kripke delivered the John Locke Lectures in philosophy at Oxford in 1973. Titled "Reference and Existence", they are in many respects a continuation of "Naming and Necessity", and deal with the subjects of fictional names and perceptual error. They have recently been published by Oxford University Press. Quentin Smith ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10066482 | 421,812 |
946,052 | In 2012, the average annual earnings for marine engineers in the U.S. were $96,140 with average hourly earnings of $46.22. As a field, marine engineering is predicted to grow approximately 12% from 2016 to 2026. Currently, there are about 8,200 naval architects and marine engineers employed, however, this number is exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3552729 | 945,549 |
631,935 | Induction coils were used to provide high voltage for early gas discharge and Crookes tubes and other high voltage research. They were also used to provide entertainment (lighting Geissler tubes, for example) and to drive small "shocking coils", Tesla coils and violet ray devices used in quack medicine. They were used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250708 | 631,597 |
1,653,488 | The distinction between vertical and horizontal transfer, and between primary and secondary endosymbiosis is not absolute, but follows a continuum, and may be subject to environmental influences. For example, in the stink bug "Nezara viridula", the vertical transmission rate of symbionts, which females provide to offsp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34920670 | 1,652,556 |
1,458,681 | In 1999, the virulence genes associated with "Mycobacterium tuberculosis" were identified through transposon mutagenesis-mediated gene knockout. A plasmid named pCG113 containing kanamycin resistance genes and the IS"1096" insertion sequence was engineered to contain variable 80-base pair tags. The plasmids were then t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17030615 | 1,457,861 |
3,001 | Experiences in the Vietnam War revealed the need for air superiority fighters and better air-to-air training for fighter pilots. Based on his experiences in the Korean War and as a fighter tactics instructor in the early 1960s, Colonel John Boyd with mathematician Thomas Christie developed the energy–maneuverability th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,001 |
2,108,492 | In 1992, Roger Dowson Engineering ran the works Mazda cars in the British Touring Car Championship, under the "Shell Mazda Racing Team" name. Watts was entered in a Mazda 323F, but the season would not prove to be particularly successful; Watts finished 18th overall in the driver's standings, and Mazda finished sixth, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39730514 | 2,107,278 |
65,700 | Waveguides are similar to coaxial cables, as both consist of tubes, with the biggest difference being that waveguides have no inner conductor. Waveguides can have any arbitrary cross section, but rectangular cross sections are the most common. Because waveguides do not have an inner conductor to carry a return current,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42986 | 65,675 |
1,260,209 | The United Kingdom Global Navigation Satellite System was first discussed by the UK Government in May 2018, after the European Union told the United Kingdom that it would no longer have full access to, nor be able to use the encrypted secure component (known as the Public Regulated Service, which is only accessible to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63113549 | 1,259,522 |
1,886,137 | Thermococcus litoralis ("T. litoralis") is a species of Archaea that is found around deep-sea hydrothermal vents as well as shallow submarine thermal springs and oil wells. It is an anaerobic organotroph hyperthermophile that is between in diameter. Like the other species in the order thermococcales, "T. litoralis" is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15872993 | 1,885,055 |
236,489 | In inter-frame coding, individual frames of a video sequence are compared from one frame to the next, and the video compression codec records the differences to the reference frame. If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system can simply issue a short command that copies that part of the previous fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8013 | 236,370 |
576,128 | A common alteration to the Stille coupling is the incorporation of a carbonyl group between R and R, serving as an efficient method to form ketones. This process is extremely similar to the initial exploration by Migita and Stille (see History) of coupling organostannane to acyl chlorides. However, these moieties are n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1224067 | 575,834 |
1,165,679 | UNO surprised many in the 1999–2000 season, its first in the CCHA. The team finished with a 10–12–6 record in the conference, good for seventh in the conference and a berth in the CCHA tournament. The Mavericks took the best-of-three first-round series at fourth-seeded Northern Michigan. In other first-round action, ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22283832 | 1,165,062 |
1,584,015 | SAA1 may also be produced by macrophages and epithelial cells in various tissues. It has been shown to promote local Th17 response in the gut. This finding, which is based on both Saa1/Saa2 knockout mice and "ex vivo" studies of T cells, strongly suggest a local immunomodulatory function of SAA1 as opposed to its estab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14297503 | 1,583,125 |
49,360 | To avoid partisanship, NASA quickly closed Glenn's agency office. "The New York Times" reported that while many Ohioans were skeptical of Glenn's qualifications for the Senate, he could defeat Young in the Democratic primary; whether he could defeat Representative Robert Taft Jr., the likely Republican candidate, in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702 | 49,340 |
1,114,103 | Widely regarded as one of Mies van der Rohe's masterpieces, Crown Hall, completed in 1956, is one of the most architecturally significant buildings of the 20th century Modernist movement. Crown Hall is considered architecturally significant because Mies van der Rohe refined the basic steel and glass construction style,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3217840 | 1,113,536 |
1,833,400 | More recently researchers have looked at exploiting network connectivity properties to better understand and design immunization strategies to prevent major epidemic outbreaks. Many real networks like the Internet, World Wide Web, and even sexual contact networks have been shown to be scale-free networks and as such ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44441540 | 1,832,352 |
1,598,792 | With the introduction of Transformer models, paraphrase generation approaches improved their ability to generate text by scaling neural network parameters and heavily parallelizing training through feed-forward layers. These models are so fluent in generating text that human experts cannot identify if an example was hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56142183 | 1,597,892 |
2,147,037 | Moving forward Bertozzi gets to the stranding of the 28 member crew when their ship the Endurance becomes lodged in the ice. At this point Bertozzi begins to highlight the crew's attitude as they play soccer on the ice and hold theatrical performances as they try their best to make it through the arctic winter. The sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44058697 | 2,145,806 |
1,925,416 | Bertschinger received his bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech in 1979, and his Ph.D. degree in astrophysical science from Princeton University in 1984. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Virginia and UC Berkeley, then went to MIT as an assistant professor of physics in 1986 becoming a full profes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48794191 | 1,924,312 |
164,325 | Of the seventeen (including the three "Oregon City"s) completed ships, twelve were commissioned before the Japanese capitulation on September 2, 1945, though only seven took part in the battles of the Pacific Theater and one in the European Theater. By 1947, nine of the "Baltimore"s had been decommissioned and placed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=612128 | 164,240 |
1,593,167 | Sanders's work on the Ebola virus led to media interviews during the 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Western Africa. He declared that there was little risk on infection for the individual American and asserted that the panic about the virus could be worse than the disease in the United States. He was an early advo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26035136 | 1,592,270 |
1,081,189 | During embryonic development, CXCL12 plays a role in cerebellar formation through the migration of neurons. Within the CNS, CXCL12 contributes to cell proliferation, neurogenesis (nervous tissue development and growth), as well as neuroinflammation. Neural progenitor cells (NPCs) are stem cells that differentiate into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=960559 | 1,080,633 |
871,021 | There are a number of strands to post-Keynesian theory with different emphases. Joan Robinson regarded Michał Kalecki's theory of effective demand to be superior to Keynes' theories. Kalecki's theory is based on a class division between workers and capitalists and imperfect competition. Robinson also led the critique o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50406 | 870,561 |
415,134 | Vertebrates were preserved too, including the osteoderms of "Borealosuchus", the crocodile that was an early clue to the mild Eocene climate of Western North America. Fish are common. The fossils of the herring-like "Knightia", sometimes in dense layers, as if a school had wandered into anoxic water levels and were ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557360 | 414,931 |
1,303,584 | A blocking oscillator (sometimes called a pulse oscillator) is a simple configuration of discrete electronic components which can produce a free-running signal, requiring only a resistor, a transformer, and one amplifying element such as a transistor or vacuum tube. The name is derived from the fact that the amplifying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3114727 | 1,302,868 |
667,829 | During the early 1960s, the first American astronauts, nicknamed the Mercury Seven, were training. At the same time, William Randolph Lovelace II was interested to see if women could manage to go through the same training that the Mercury 7 undergoing at the time. Lovelace recruited thirteen female pilots, called the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,481 |
1,806,914 | The Albright Institute continues to play a role in scrolls scholarship to the present day. In the 1990s, Board Chair Joy Ungerleider established a Dorot Dead Sea Scrolls fellowship at the Albright to enable young American scholars to work on the scroll fragments in the nearby Rockefeller Museum. One of the first holder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31917726 | 1,805,895 |
895,472 | The university's 58 departments are organised into 12 faculties: Arts, Engineering, Fine Arts, Law, Science, Business Studies, Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Agriculture, Fisheries, Veterinary & Animal Sciences. The Arts and the Law faculties are the oldest, both established in 1953, closely followed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1612343 | 895,001 |
1,499,091 | Creating an effective zero carbon house involves multiple levels of consideration stemming from the people who chose to build and/or remodel their home, to the design team in charge of developing the proper design strategies, to the contractors who construct and implement them. It is ultimately a team effort from each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34079692 | 1,498,247 |
1,320,724 | Fission fragment reactor designs generally have several common components. The reactor chamber contains a high surface area nuclear fuel to both facilitate direct emission of fission fragments and assist in cooling the fuel. Generally, if fuels subject to criticality are used instead of those that naturally decay (as i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6314070 | 1,319,998 |
494,255 | Abu Reihan Biruni Observatory was set up and established by Yousef Sobouti in collaboration with Edward Guinan and Robert H. Koch in 1975. The idea to build this center was proposed by Yousef Sobouti in the late 1960s to promote observational astronomy and training a new generation of astronomers in Iran before buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398287 | 494,000 |
2,202,189 | Long non-coding RNAs and microRNAs have important roles in a majority of biological pathways. The roles of LncRNAs include regulation of splicing and translation and recruitment of epigenetic and regulatory components to target genomic loci. The fact that a large portion of tissue-specific RNA exists in the bran is evi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69860092 | 2,200,935 |
1,869,625 | This clustering behavior has been observed for self-propelled Janus particles, either platinum-coated gold particles or carbon-coated silica beads, and for magnetically or ultrasonically powered particles. Clustering has also been observed for colloidal particles composed of either an embedded hematite cube or slowly-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47902284 | 1,868,548 |
1,319,844 | At the end of 1945 or very early in 1946 Hartree briefed Maurice Wilkes of the University of Cambridge on the comparative developments in computing in the USA which he had seen. Wilkes, then received an invitation from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering (the builders of ENIAC) to attend a course on electronic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252692 | 1,319,118 |
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